BrIDGs

Program Snapshot

Bridging Interventional Development Gaps (BrIDGs) provides eligible scientists with no-cost access to contractor services, such as toxicology studies, for pre-clinical therapeutic development. BrIDGs is now housed in the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS).

Schematic for BrIDGs Concept

Where private sector capacity for drug development is limited or not available, the NIH can help to bridge the gap by providing resources needed to facilitate development of promising therapies

This page last reviewed on May 8, 2017

Announcements

The Bridging Interventional Development Gaps (BrIDGs) Program has transitioned from Common Fund support. Common Fund programs are strategic investments that aim to achieve a set of high-impact goals within a 5-10 year timeframe. At the conclusion of each program, deliverables will transition to other sources of support or use within the scientific community.

The BrIDGs program was supported by the Common Fund from Fiscal Year 2004 to Fiscal Year 2013. Currently, the program is supported and administered by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). Visit their website here.

Highlights of the BrIDGs program’s major accomplishments during its time as a Common Fund Program:

Research data and material generated by BrIDGs were involved in 13 successful Investigational New Drug applications to the FDA.

One clinical trial application was cleared by Health Canada.

Twelve projects were evaluated in clinical trials including three BrIDGs supported agents that went as far as Phase 2 human clinical trials.

Third-party investors licensed 7 agents during or after their development by BrIDGs.

Please note that since the BrIDGs program is no longer supported by the Common Fund, the program website is being maintained as an archive and will not be updated on a regular basis.